French ruling party having a riot on the Internet

Although struggling with worsening urban violence, President Jacques Chirac’s ruling conservative party has found the time to make sure it comes out on top in Internet searches on the rioting. The French version of Google returns a sponsored link to www.u-m-p.org, the home page for Chirac’s Union for a Popular Majority (UMP), when users type “riots” and “Paris” (or the French words for riots and suburb, “emeutes” and “banlieue”) into the search field.

November 8, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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